Meet the Highland Park Cheer Captains

Speaker 1 0:07

Welcome to the Bubble Lounge. I'm Martha Jackson. It is a really big week for the football team. They're playing Jesuit Friday night at Highlander Stadium, so I invited the Highland Park cheer captains in to join us to help get us ready for this big game. Joining me today is Addie Dyer, Maren Fidler and Claire Thrash. They just got finished with practice but they are filled with energy and they are ready to get us hyped up for Friday night. Ladies, welcome to the show. Hi, Well, let's go around the table and start with you, Maren, and introduce yourselves and tell me how you got started with cheerleading.

Speaker 2 0:41

Hi, I'm Maren Fidler and I got started with cheerleading I think just my mom enrolled me because she was a cheerleader and my sister was in tumbling classes, and so I just started doing tumbling classes and then I was on a competitive cheer team for five, six years-ish and then my gym closed down and I just continued doing tumbling classes and my sister was an HP cheerleader, so I just kept with it.

Speaker 3 1:15

I'm Addie Dyer and I started doing like gymnastics at first, and then I was scared to do everything, so then I eventually got into tumbling. I started all-star cheer in third grade and I quit sophomore year. So I've been doing it for eight years and then, just now, hp cheer.

Speaker 4 1:33

Hi, I'm Claire. I started out with gymnastics also. I never wanted to join a team because I was too scared of like stage fright, so then I moved to just tumbling classes and I did that up until freshman year when I joined HP. Cheer.

Speaker 1 1:51

All right, so you guys have all been doing it for quite some time. Well, can you guys share the story of what it takes to become a captain? What was the process like?

Speaker 4 2:02

It's a long process in. In a way, you kind of have to build up to it, like especially your junior year. You want to really show that you want captain and lead by example and leading the juniors. Um, there's, there's positions. There's positions for juniors marin, oh yes, I was junior rep.

Speaker 2 2:26

Well, I was freshman cheer captain, then JV cheer captain, then junior rep and now I was varsity captain. I am varsity captain so I've kind of just been doing it since freshman year and I've just built on all of it. Um, but there's definitely a lot of steps. There's an interview process, there's a tryout, well kind of there's a speech that you give in front of the entire team and then the team votes on the top three people that they think would be a good captain and whose speech they liked better, and then what else the directors and the sponsors also have a say in it and the old captains oh yes

Speaker 4 3:10

also. Yes, I feel like this is kind of newer. They included like a rubric this year. So there was four different sections, 25 points each. Three were the questions and then 25 was your. So it really came down to the interview. Was there a teacher?

Speaker 3 3:27

Oh and there was a teacher. Oh, wow so there was a lot of stuff that went into play when it came to it.

Speaker 1 3:34

It's an in-depth process, for sure. Well, I see you guys before the games and you are always leading the pack on the run out. You're like leading right in front of the football players. Tell me what that's like Like those guys go faster. There's a big, huge gust of wind behind my back when I'm out there and I can only imagine what that must feel like when you're leading that big group.

Speaker 4 3:57

It's a huge adrenaline rush for sure, it's so fun but terrifying at the same time. You always get hit.

Speaker 3 4:07

Yeah, so if you're the band playing, you're like, oh my gosh you're like you're like you have to get ready because you're about to like sprint, like as fast as you can, yeah when those drums start.

Speaker 2 4:14

Yeah, you're ready to go yes, and especially after halftime, the band just goes, they, they don't waste any time.

Speaker 3 4:20

There's not like a walkie-talkie call or anything.

Speaker 2 4:23

it's just like no, no, no, no, no, no, it's scary.

Speaker 1 4:27

And it's time to go. So has there ever been any near misses or anything that's happened during runouts?

Speaker 2 4:32

Yes, this past week I was standing next to the runout flag and I didn't realize, I guess, the time or the positions everyone was in and they just started playing and I was three feet from the run out flag and I ran for my actual life, and then I got in the way of Scotsman, and last year I got hit with the Scotsman flag me too.

Speaker 4 4:55

Yes, I got hit by Scotsman tumbling, I think mine was.

Speaker 2 5:00

I was running, he goes move and he like hit the flag and I like got hit in the head and I was like okay.

Speaker 3 5:05

Oh gosh, I'm so glad I've never been hit in the head.

The Journey to Becoming Captain

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Speaker 4 6:24

I would say, for me personally, the pep rallies are so fun when, like after we perform, it's like wow, yay, like all of that hard work is like finally like put to use and it's done. It's so fun. But also, like last year, the second or the third championship game before state think sutton stock kick oh, my god that was the best moment of my life.

Speaker 4 6:50

Sutton stock kicked the winning goal because we were what? Three points behind two points I think we were two points and then that made us, he made us win, and there was like 15 seconds left or something like that, and then it was like, oh my gosh, we're going to state yep, that's right.

Speaker 1 7:06

I have a good video of that very moment and I said on the caption something to the effect of the moment that the scots knew they were going to the state championship. It was so. It was was amazing. Did the crowd just go crazy?

Speaker 2 7:18

yeah, everyone went crazy, the whole cheer, team's crazy because, yes, because on those moments chant lines kind of disappear and on the field, just like watching, like holding each other, like oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 7:32

Yeah, like I really like just hoping for the best right right, right.

Speaker 1 7:37

Well, how do you keep up your energy during these intense games, like when there's a real nail biter and maybe we're behind some?

Speaker 2 7:45

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Speaker 4 7:56

I have them all the time yeah, I would also say, just like the little cheers and chants like let's go, scotty. We do those a lot towards third, fourth quarter, because it's like we're exhausted, but at the same time we want to get everyone involved, and so we'll definitely use those little cheers and chants and the band dances too.

Speaker 3 8:21

Like every year, the band starts to play. You're like that's the best thing ever, and then it brings the energy up so much more because we have a lot of little band dances that we get to do, so that always makes it a lot so fun yes, what is one of the most funny or unexpected things that's happened, either on the field or doing a cheer competition?

Speaker 4 8:39

I would say just run out. In general, run out.

Speaker 3 8:42

Oh, it's so funny always a story also our poco performance.

Speaker 2 8:47

Yeah, we didn't practice that one on the field, we did oh my gosh, we did one.

Speaker 1 8:53

I remember me and laney just totally screwed up and uh, it was supposed to be a 25 and it it was not a 25 it didn't look like one but we tried our best what do you guys feel like the role that cheerleaders play as far as just keeping the whole stadium, and the student section especially, just energized the whole time?

Speaker 4 9:16

I just feel like you really have to do your best, like no matter what's happening for winning or losing, you have to do your best to just keep the encouragement up, have so much energy, look like you're having the best time of your life, like it's so fun if you make it fun yes, and also I think, like just keeping a smile on your face and being like we're, like it's okay, like Scottie's find a way like, that's just like a yes.

Speaker 5 9:42

We're always like no, it's okay, don't even worry I'm lost.

Speaker 2 9:47

She was the biggest Scottie supporter. Yeah, just being in stunts and being like it's okay, and when the football team is next to us, when they're about to score on defense next to us, just being as loud as you can, facing them because they can hear you, like facing them because I can hear you if, like the whole team's doing it, they like have told us like we can hear y'all, like keep doing it, like as loud as you can, and that just really, I think just keeps the energy up.

Speaker 1 10:10

I love that. Well, everyone's been watching America's Team, followed by America's Sweetheart. Have you guys watched it?

Speaker 3 10:17

um, I have watched it. I know she's a big fan, yes.

Speaker 1 10:21

Thoughts on it. I watched last season and I've only made it through two or three episodes. This so far on this one, me too I really enjoy it.

Speaker 3 10:30

I think it's really cool to see like how they're like, how their program is from like kelly and judy, and how they come.

Speaker 4 10:36

I think miss barnes actually has. I think she's been inspired based off of them a lot this season. She really likes kelly's ideas and she's been incorporating them a little bit yeah, she's on weights.

Game Day Experiences and Traditions

Speaker 3 10:49

Yeah, hold our team accountable, yeah, to make sure that we're all doing what we're supposed to which is skills check. Yes, every monday we had a skills check. Today we did yes, okay, we have to do our standing tumbling and running tumbling but I think yeah people are forgetting that all of those, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, they're dancers.

Speaker 2 11:08

They're not cheerleaders, yes, but they're amazing.

Speaker 1 11:11

They're so good. Yeah, well, that's a good point, though what is the biggest responsibility of a captain that people might not know about?

Speaker 4 11:18

I would say the behind-the-scenes communication. Yes, the behind the scenes communication. Yeah, I feel like no one really realizes how much back and forth we do with the directors and the coaches and they're like kind of like don't shoot the messenger. Vibes like yeah, it's like we're the messengers, it's like we have like that much of a say in like decisions that come down to like game days, pep rallies and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 11:46

But we're like very much the bridge between the coaches and the directors to the team right I also feel like I've just been asked like a lot more this year on like from our teammates, like the juniors and stuff, especially on like how to do stuff. I didn't get that a lot last year, so I feel like we're also there to like reassure them and help them understand exactly what they're supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 4 13:09

It can be difficult sometimes.

Speaker 2 13:12

I mean, I just think you can have fun and be a leader. It's just like doing what you're supposed to be doing, because you have to lead by example, because you have to lead by example, but and like encourage it. It's like you need to encourage, like your friends, to like the people that you're really close with on the team to be like, hey, like you have to do this because everyone's doing it, like I can't favor you, but then going and like making jokes with them and like smiling and when they score a touchdown, running over to them and hugging them and just having fun with that kind of aspect and just making jokes during practice, but also keeping concentrated and just knowing when to make the joke and when to stay silent and when to listen, and just all that stuff.

Speaker 4 13:56

Yeah.

Speaker 3 13:56

We need to have a good balance between being captain and being a friend, having to be serious whenever we need to be Well, being a leader on a team like this.

Speaker 1 14:05

It's a big deal and it's an intense process and you have a very big team, a lot of people looking at, looking up to you. What is something you've learned about yourself through this process?

Speaker 4 14:16

I feel like I've just learned so much through like doing it for others rather than doing it for myself, like you really want to like show that you earned this role for a reason, and you want to like live up to everyone's standards, because, at the end of the day, people did vote for you to be captain and so you just like really want to be there for everyone else and show up for them rather than just yourself.

Speaker 3 14:43

Yeah, because they like put the expectation on you that you are going to do the best that you could all the time. So you have to like again, like Claire said, live up to the expectation. Always do what you need to do 100% of the time.

Speaker 2 14:54

Yes, also, one thing that I learned about myself is also not taking everyone's opinions to heart, because there's going to be a lot the teams in Vegas has ever been it's 35 people this year including us, or 36. 35. And just there's always a lot of opinions. And just having like trusting yourself and trusting that you were voted for the reason, like they said, and just being like my like, whatever I'm calling, like trying like my best to like please everybody, but then knowing it's OK if not everybody agrees with you.

Speaker 4 15:35

Like you, can't live up to everyone's expectations all the time.

Speaker 2 15:39

There's always going to be someone's opinion.

Speaker 1 15:41

Yeah, I think that's so smart. I mean, those are definitely lessons that you will carry throughout all of your life. Well, let's switch gears for a minute to school spirit and tradition. There's a lot of traditions at Highland Park yes, so many. I always love learning about them. But how would you describe Highland Park school spirit to somebody who has not experienced it yet?

Speaker 4 16:02

I feel like it's just really built off traditions like the Scotsman the overalls that sit on the the railings at the games. Um, what else? The bells spirited, scotch cheer, like it's just all been so long that, like all these programs and these groups have like been around for, and it's just all been so long that, like all of these programs and these groups have like been around for, and it's like a passed down thing a lot of the times it's just like super exciting and it's just the energy.

Leading the Team and Finding Balance

Speaker 2 16:31

It was exciting this past game to see which, like of our guys got the overalls. Yeah, because these are passed down and they have inside of the overalls they have passed down and they have inside of the overalls they have all the names and sharpie written down, and so that's always cool to see, like, who got what, because, like, who got the overalls? Yeah, um, and then just I think everything there's so many crazy traditions, like all the seniors sitting on the front on the rail I love that waiting for their opportunity like I feel like that drives more of the spirit too well, I think it's so interesting, there's like a hierarchy, yeah yeah, when you're very much, you start out, it's funny it's

Speaker 2 17:10

funny to see yes, it's funny to see, um, because the seniors always get there super early. Yes, and you would expect then the juniors to get there, but it it's not, it's always the freshmen. And you see, like you just see, all these freshmen just plowed at the top of the stadium and then all the seniors below, and then, like the juniors and sophomores, like finally arrive, they're filtering at their own pace.

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Speaker 4 19:04

Black Light Black Light for sure, and Beat.

Speaker 2 19:06

Jesuit Beat. Jesuit is so fun.

Speaker 4 19:09

It's always the most hype. Yes.

Speaker 2 19:11

Because it's obviously it's our biggest rival. And then the cheer music we choose we try to choose rap, rap songs, rap Like just like popular, like kind of songs like that, not all rap, because they have to be like yes get like, get ready for the big game yes music, yeah, and then black light.

Speaker 4 19:31

It's just always so fun to choreograph we get to choose the theme.

Speaker 2 19:34

Every captain choose the theme, so it was fun.

Speaker 4 19:38

We have a good one in the mix, we think we think.

Speaker 1 19:41

I can't wait to see it. I'd love to come out to see it. It's so much fun. Well, what is your favorite? Cheer or chant that always gets the student section going.

Speaker 3 19:50

Everyone loves jam. Everyone, like, knows all the motions.

Speaker 4 19:53

Everyone knows the moves Like. That's why yeah like I was on the sideline and my friend Jane Ann, she was like Claire. When are y'all going to call jam Like, do jam, do jam Everyone knows that I'm like okay, it's about to come.

Speaker 2 20:05

Also, everyone knows, spell it out yeah, everyone loves that one.

Speaker 3 20:07

We just have a pep rally to do so. They hear that twice or multiple times throughout the Fridays.

Speaker 1 20:12

Yeah, Well, we have a big Jesuit game tomorrow night. Is there anything in store for the pep rally that you can share?

Speaker 4 20:19

Well, it's a very stunt-based routine.

Speaker 2 20:23

We actually haven't choreographed it yet, oh, oh, oh, it's because it's for Meryl.

Speaker 1 20:30

We're pretending that it's the day before the games.

Speaker 3 20:33

We can talk about the rules and stuff.

Speaker 2 20:35

Just give a general oh, it'll Okay, yeah, it's a very oh Okay.

Speaker 4 20:41

Yeah, it's a very stunt-based routine Lots of cool tumbling. It's just very hype. Yes.

Speaker 3 20:49

I don't know Flipping and stunts. Yeah, it's definitely like one of the coolest routines.

Speaker 4 20:53

Yes, we put like the best effort into this one for sure.

Speaker 1 20:56

I can't wait to see it Like our high-heeled stunts. Yes, oh, that's awesome, it's a very showy routine Like it's.

Speaker 3 21:01

it's exhausting, but it's worth it if everyone's sure, Cause everyone, that's always everyone's.

Speaker 1 21:11

Yeah, this sounds like it's going to make the crowd go wild. Yes, are there any traditions or rituals?

School Spirit and HP Traditions

Speaker 2 21:14

that you guys do pregame? Um, yes, so before a pep rally, we have one of our juniors, emma Vaughn, shout out. She's our inspiration officer this year and their job is to find a. Usually it's a Bible verse. It can be a quote, though, but typically it's a Bible verse and they write it down. They write down 35 different ones and they give it to us and we all roll it up.

Speaker 2 21:40

We read it, obviously, yeah and then we roll it up and then we put it in our shoes. So for every pep rally, in every game, there's always a bible verse rolled up in our shoes that we're performing at it. So I love doing that.

Speaker 4 21:53

And then also before we do our ripsaw yeah, for every pep rally in our circle, and we do our little. Say it as fast as we can so no one can hear it.

Speaker 1 22:02

You can't tell us what it means, right?

Speaker 3 22:04

No, we cannot, no, we cannot.

Speaker 1 22:05

I remember I asked the girls last year and they were like uh, and they have it on their shirts, by the way. Yes, I guess I'll just never know what it means. Huh, got to join the OHP cheer program. Yeah, maybe they'll have a middle age before it's over. And what is one thing that you feel like makes HP cheer different and unique from any other schools?

Speaker 3 22:29

I feel like the requirements that we have to make the team really sets us apart. The whole tryout, yeah, the trial process, like we're required to have standing tucks in our tryout yes, if you don't have a standing tuck, it's like you don't make the team.

Speaker 2 22:42

You don't make the team. Yeah, so every single person has done a standing tuck to make the team varsity and JV.

Speaker 4 22:49

And that's what we've been like going over on our school checks, making sure everyone keeps those up for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 1 22:55

Yeah, yeah, you were saying, every Monday you have your school checks.

Speaker 3 22:58

Right.

Speaker 1 22:58

Yeah Well, so let's do this just for fun. Kind of a rapid fire situation. What is your go-to pump-up song that gets squad dancing?

Speaker 2 23:07

Well, there's band dances, yeah, and holiday Fireball, fireball and Trouble. Oh, it's so fun Trouble's a good one.

Speaker 1 23:16

Speaking of Trouble, who's the most likely to be the troublemaker on the on the team, on the team.

Speaker 4 23:26

Yeah, we're here you're on the team, we'll do both. Um on the team, I'd say laney bailey.

Speaker 2 23:31

Yeah, yes, laney bailey, yeah, we love her to death though us three, it's definitely me well, who's like, who's the most likely to forget their pumps?

Speaker 3 23:43

me there out of us three yeah out of us three and out of everyone laney lady, shout out to lady or kate, kate would forget her palm.

Speaker 2 23:53

Yeah, I know she would, and she'd be like man. Where's my bones? Who's the biggest prankster there's?

Speaker 4 23:58

three, yeah, hunter, kate and maggie. Yes, then three seniors for sure. And then there's a quite a funny duo that are juniors Ashley Chantilis and Lila Hines. Yes, they are perfect together, they are so funny, they're hilarious.

Speaker 3 24:16

They just always make practice so fun.

Speaker 1 24:18

Yeah, their energy feeds off of each other.

Speaker 3 24:21

Yes, oh my gosh, they look around and they're doing something weird over in the corner.

Speaker 4 24:27

It'll be like a water break and they're just messing around like in their own world that's so great.

Speaker 1 24:34

Well, what is the cheerleader stereotype in movies that you feel like they get all wrong very there's a lot of them.

Speaker 2 24:40

Yeah, it's very dance oriented and um, but just a bunch of like popular stupid girls.

Speaker 3 24:46

Yeah yeah, dumb blonde dumb yeah dumb blonde that is it that is true, and we've seen every single movie? Yeah?

Speaker 2 24:53

like. They're like yeah, the captain will be like the dumb blonde cheerleader.

Speaker 4 24:57

And then someone will come over, right?

Speaker 2 24:58

oh, my god, yes and it's not like that at all well, what's like the best?

Speaker 1 25:03

behind the scenes story from practice the cheer program um.

Speaker 2 25:08

Later in the season definitely, especially right now we're pretty good about it, but later in the season we make up a routine every single week like we'll learn it on monday and tuesday and perform it friday. Performing it like finish completely done by friday. So just learning those and yeah, it's a lot, especially playoff season um every friday varsity performs, so it gets to be a lot especially with last year when we got to state we just didn't know when it was going to end.

Speaker 2 25:40

Yes, yeah, waiting until the next, like during yes, during normal season, there's usually j performs they're like spirited performs. It switches off. Yes, it switches off between varsity and then, like one of the other, cheer teams. But playoffs is only varsity typically and it's a lot.

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Advice for Future Cheerleaders

Speaker 4 27:37

keep up the hard work, for sure. You want to keep building your skills as you get older or maintaining the skills that you tried out with you get older, or maintaining the skills that you tried out with.

Speaker 2 27:52

And, yeah, having a good basis, good form, because you'll all the technique. Yes, once you get older and you're just need to start just throwing skills, I feel like an old lady when I throw skills, that's definitely some advice. Yes, work on the basics, yeah, definitely, and just get used to tumbling on dead mat, because if had a section where we had to try out?

Speaker 3 28:29

with like a sign or a megaphone or a flag, like part of our tryout to prepare for-.

Speaker 4 28:34

Just not being awkward. Yeah, having the confidence in your voice especially just like voice projection.

Speaker 2 28:41

Yes, voice projection is always a hard one.

Speaker 4 28:42

Huge thing on the rubric for making.

Speaker 2 28:46

Yes, just knowing that, even though you feel awkward when you're doing game day stuff, you're not awkward the more stupid you feel, the better you are. I promise yes like that's like my number one.

Speaker 1 28:58

Yeah, like, if you, if you think I look stupid, you look great yeah, what is the legacy that you hope that this year's team will leave behind?

Speaker 4 29:10

I think, just like leaving like everyone, be like wow after every pep rally, every game day, just like varsity was really good this year, yes, very like I feel like we've started off so strong and just maintaining that, because a lot of the times it gets so exhausting towards the end of the year, but like just maintaining that same energy that we start like from the first week.

Speaker 2 29:34

Right.

Speaker 1 29:35

Yes, well, what's a memory you think for each of you that you will carry long after graduation from being a cheerleader at Highland Park?

Speaker 4 29:44

Finding out Ripsaw.

Speaker 3 29:47

That one for sure, but I also even think from, like, our freshman year, when we got to compete oh my god, oh yeah, that definitely one with the softball. They just graduated. Now they're all in college, but that was so fun, like that's. We really got close to that team through and see and then we got to win and I think, awesome, so that was a good memory the day I got captain.

Speaker 2 30:07

Oh my god, yeah, that was awesome I'll remember that forever.

Speaker 1 30:12

Yeah, that was dramatic yeah, sounds like a great day, though what? Yeah, okay well, please share more about that well, there's a whole process um.

Speaker 2 30:31

I was actually right, okay, they pick you up. Yes, like the old captains will pick you up. I had no clue this was. None of us knew this was happening, no idea. And they told us it was happening. At what? 4, 30?

Speaker 3 30:43

yeah, they were like it'll come out at 4 30. I'm just sitting on my computer at 5, like refresh, refresh, refresh, Waiting for the email yes, wait for an email.

Speaker 2 30:52

Lo and behold, there was no email. There was no email until we were all three picked up in the car and so me and Claire are in the same friend group? Yeah, we're in the same group, chatting and everything, and a lot of my other friends are. Other friends do track.

Speaker 4 31:09

And our other friends to track. And so when claire got picked up, I had no, I didn't know what was going on. Yes, I got told to go get my friend's uber eats because she was about to run. I was like, okay, like I'll go get it. I see the three captains the previous captains run out with the sign like congrats, claire. Like your captain. They're like get in the car. Get in the car. Like I'm like wait what, I'm out of, track me. And they're like no, we talked to coach bailey, like you're good, you're good to go. And I'm like wait what? And they're like, no, get in the car. So I go grab my stuff and I'm like everyone's like what's going on? What's going on?

Speaker 2 31:31

I'm like I just, I just got, captain and so they text, yes, so they text the group chat, like sending a picture. I mean, like claire got captain, oh my gosh, and I obviously you didn't see like the old captains in the back like picking her up, I just saw her like with a. It was a picture of her with her phone in her hand. So in my head I was like Claire just got an email that said that she was captain and I didn't get it. So I, oh my gosh, because I was like junior rep and it is honest, like it is junior rep was so is so much work. It is like minus captain, like senior captain, it is the definitely the hardest position out there, like on the chair in the chair program. And so I was like devastated, I was crying, I was like I'm so sad, like I just put in so much effort and I didn't get captain. I was so sad.

Speaker 2 32:19

And then it was they had they picked up claire, then addy, and then I was last, just because I, my house is really far and um, it was six o'clock when they picked me up and I used to see our car drive by and then I was like wait, so like, and then I like it turns around and it comes back and I was like, oh my gosh, I got captive and my parents knew the entire time yes, my parents knew the entire time when I was bawling, crying.

The Captain Selection Story

Speaker 3 32:47

They didn't tell me it was terrible it was, and it's like the funny thing is you're not there, you're not supposed to know who else is captain with you, like blindfolded. Yeah right, no one's supposed to know who any of the three captains we just knew. I knew that I was captain, but I didn't know who I was with. And then they put me in the car and then they take off my shirt and I see claire in the car and I'm like and then mary got in the car too, so that was okay.

Speaker 1 33:09

Talk about a movie, this I know yes it was insane. Oh my gosh. I mean. This day for all of you definitely is a huge memory. Yes, it was crazy. It's a great story though. Well, ladies, I know you have a big event coming up on october 24th hamburger stuff. Yes, hamburger stuff.

Speaker 4 33:29

It's our what 101. 101. The year of the cheer. Woo, yeah, we'll have Burger House. Yes, raffles, raffles, there's always a little dance station.

Speaker 3 33:41

Take pictures with the cheerleaders.

Speaker 4 33:43

Yes, so much fun. It's always the homecoming game, so come out to the cafeteria and it's always the homecoming game.

Speaker 1 33:49

So come out. Yes, that's always fun. Yeah, and it's always such a fun time just for family to come out, bring the young kids. The kids just love to meet you guys and get pictures.

Speaker 2 33:56

I remember growing up going to oh, I have, I still have my buttons.

Speaker 4 33:59

Yeah, with the cheerleaders I was like oh my gosh, I'm meeting famous people famous.

Speaker 2 34:05

Yeah, I was. Now I'm like on a poster. I remember looking at being in Mustang Donuts, looking at the cheer poster and like, looking and being like all the cheerleaders. Now that's you.

Speaker 4 34:16

I know why was I like hiding my. I know.

Speaker 1 34:22

Well, you know, when you're little, you're looking at them and now, your people are looking up to you guys.

Speaker 5 34:28

And it's crazy.

Speaker 1 34:30

Well, to learn more about Hamburger Supper and get your tickets, go to hpcheercom, and I will be sharing links and graphics and all the stuff on my Instagram just to remind you guys to get out there and go. Well, ladies, this has been such a treat to have you here in the Bubble Lounge. I appreciate you so much for coming out. I love everything that you do. Keep up the great work and have a great season.

Speaker 2 34:54

Thank you, so much fun, yes.

Speaker 1 34:57

Go Scots. That's been another episode of the Bubble Lounge. I'm Martha Jackson and I'll see you next time.